'It is a public health issue'

'But I will say this unequivocally and conclusively, God is among us right now'

'There could have been five shooters'

Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. What does Trump 2.0 mean for the economy? Last week, Donald Trump sat with news outlet Bloomberg for an in-depth interview on his economic plans. ZeroHedge wrote up a great summary. In short, Trump plans more of what he did first time around: Lower taxes—he’s floating 15% rates. Slashing red tape; drill baby drill; and new tariffs, especially on the Chinese—which Trump again floated as a replacement for the income tax, which would be glorious if it came to pass. He plans to end the foreign wars, including Ukraine and a theoretical war over Taiwan. And, of course, he plans to lock the border and deport 10 million-plus illegal aliens Joe Biden imported. On the Fed, Trump plans to keep Jerome Powell until his term ends in early 2026—note that it’s nearly impossible to remove a sitting Fed chair before his term ends. He thinks the Fed should hold off rate cuts since inflation isn’t tamed yet, which is correct. The political background here is that inflation and jobs remain the top issue for American voters, and the numbers for Biden are only getting worse. Yes, even the official numbers. Biden’s losing working class voters, he’s losing Hispanics, he’s even losing black men who are a pillar of the Democrat coalition. This actually plays directly into Trump’s strength—his economic management. Last time around, Trump took an anemic Obama economy and delivered nearly 3% real growth per year, drove unemployment from almost 5% under Obama to just 3.5%. He kept inflation low—it was 1.4% when Trump left office, down from Obama’s final read of 2.6%. Note that was 1.4% even with Trump’s tariffs on China. The one part that’s missing is spending restraint—getting federal spending down to the point where it stops feeding inflation. I mentioned in a recent video that Trump’s been about average on spending, comparable to Bush or Obama. Still, that’s a damn sight better than Biden, who’s greenlighted activist utopia with a trillion-dollar price tag on it. Granted, we could see savings from ending the forever wars and deporting millions of illegals, but ideally, we’d go full [Argentinian President] Javier Milei, canceling entire departments like the Department of Education, foreign aid, or—God willing—the IRS. I have no doubt Trump would like to do these things. But every federal dollar has a political cost to eliminating it, so I understand the political reality, especially before the election. So what’s next? Beyond what Trump plans to do, the question is, can he get it through Congress? Betting markets are currently putting Trump at 68% chance of winning—keep in mind that betting markets, in theory, capture the margin of cheating. They give even higher odds for a GOP Senate—78%, albeit with a slim 52 to 48 margin vulnerable to RINOs [Republicans in Name Only]. But those same markets say it’s 50/50 who controls the House, where bills have to originate. So, the question is whether Trump’s coattails—or Joe Biden’s stink—carry enough down-ballot congressional races. If voters deliver Trump a workable Congress, then he could quickly pass tax cuts and deregulation that would start taking the edge off inflation. But to actually wipe out inflation would take getting Javier Milei-level spending cuts through Congress. The other elephant in the room is the recession. Taxes and deregulation make us rich in the long run, but it takes time for new businesses to start, existing businesses to expand, or new factories to be built. So, it may be too late to skip the downturn, even as we build a stronger foundation for the future. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trumponomics 2.0: Slash Red Tape, Lower Taxes, Drill for Energy, Tariff China appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Democrat Civil War Update: It Has Heated Up...

PBS’s Christiane Amanpour invited Never Trumper David Frum of The Atlantic to Wednesday's episode of Amanpour and Company, where he delivered his usual rigmarole of anti-Republican nonsense. This time, he downplayed the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, claiming he was using it “in an improper way.” Amanpour led with a “devil’s advocate” question about recent claims that the shooting had changed Trump’s character, wondering whether he “deserve[d] the benefit of the doubt and should one reserve judgment until he’s actually spoken?”  Dismissing the apparently ridiculous suggestion, Frum doubled down on his hatred of the former president, insisting that “at the age of 78, and after a half century of a career as one of America's leading commercial fraudsters, I think change is unlikely.”     Frum continued to condemn Trump for what he called “exalting, and delighting, and gloating, and using this event, that ought to be a unifying event, in an improper way.” Far from simply sensationalizing the shooting, Trump had been driving the message of unity, as evidenced in several posts on his Truth Social account as well as his plan to adjust his speech at the Republican National Convention. After Amanpour asked him for clarification, Frum scrambled for a substantial explanation, pathetically deciding that “a different kind of person would not have allowed his surrogates immediately to pin the blame, for this attempted assassination, on his rival.” He cited a recent X post from Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s vice presidential pick, stating, “His own vice president has said this assassination attempt was Joe Biden's fault.” In fact, the post does not specifically lay the blame on President Joe Biden himself but denounces the Biden administration for their incendiary rhetoric, which he emphasizes was directly responsible for the shooter’s motives.   Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination. — J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 14, 2024   Frum further brushed off the shooter as a lone actor with no political influence. “There was no evidence for that, and, indeed, as the evidence has come in, the shooter looks to be the very familiar, American disturbed loner seeking some kind of glory through crime and bloodshed,” he argued. Though supposedly a Republican himself, Frum summarized his rant by decrying Republicans, firmly declaring, “They are unchanged. They are the same people. Donald Trump at 78 is not going to become a different human being.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: PBS Amanpour and Company 7/17/2024 CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So, devil's advocate, obviously, benefit of the doubt. There are many, many people, including himself, who have said that this event last Saturday has changed him. His son says it's changed him. People who’ve been around him say he looks changed. He says he's changing the content of his acceptance speech, which will be on Thursday night. Does he deserve the benefit of the doubt and should he–should one reserve judgment until he's actually spea–spoken? DAVID FRUM: Um, at the age of 78, and after a half century of a career as one of America's leading commercial fraudsters, I think change is unlikely. Um, and, of course, to this–at this moment, he is exalting, and delighting, and gloating, and using this event, that ought to be a unifying event, in an improper way. Um, he should be… AMANPOUR: What do you mean by that? FRUM: …um, I mean–if he…well, a different kind of person would not have allowed his surrogates immediately to pin the blame, for this attempted assassination, on his rival. Um, his own vice president has said this assassination attempt was Joe Biden's fault. He said that on Twitter, or X as we now call it.  Um, now, there was no evidence for that, and, indeed, as the evidence has come in, the shooter looks to be the very familiar, American disturbed loner seeking some kind of glory through crime and bloodshed. That–that looks to be the story.  Um, a candidate for vice president of the United States should not be quick to accuse others of responsibility, culpability for such a heinous act, but they were. They are unchanged. They are the same people. Donald Trump at 78 is not going to become a different human being. (...)

PBS’s biased coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention began even before the main event, on Wednesday evening’s PBS News Hour, aiming not only to fact-check the Republicans but even to suggest some Republican voting “misinformation” could lead to "political violence." The tax-funded network’s first fact-check target was…reality TV star, Savannah Chrisley, who discussed her family’s legal woes in her speech. Lisa Desjardins, reporting from the convention floor, played the hypocrisy card before moving to the fact check. Desjardins: But amid praise of Trump, on a night focused on law and order, Republicans generally ignored Trump's own 34 felony convictions, except as evidence of what they see as a weaponized justice system. Savannah Chrisley: Today, we have a two-faced justice system. Just look at what they're doing to President Trump, all while, let's face it, Hunter Biden is roaming around free and attending classified meetings. PBS pounced, with the help of their convention fact-check partners, the left-leaning PolitiFact . Katie Sanders, Editor in Chief, PolitiFact: So this is unproven. Lisa Desjardins: We spoke with PolitiFact's Katie Sanders. The organization is checking statements made at both 2024 conventions. In this case, the claim comes from an NBC report about Hunter Biden. But: Sanders: That report did not say anything about Hunter Biden attending classified briefings. That would be something that would be illegal, because he does not have a security clearance to be in those sessions. So it's not a proven claim. Desjardins gave a pass on the statement of a mother whose son died of fentanyl poisoning. Desjardins: But several other statements didn't hold up, like this from [Republican Rep. Steve] Scalise: Rep. Steve Scalise: On the border, Biden and Harris opened it up to the entire world. Prisons are being emptied. Sanders was awfully confident: This claim is false. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have not opened up the border. Even more egregious here is the idea that there's an organized effort to recruit people from prisons in other countries. We have done research to look into whether it's been documented that these governments, these countries, there's some group that's organizing prisoners and releasing them to the U.S. It's just not proven. In the next segment, White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez (who’s kept a low profile during the convention) fretted over the dangers of 2024 Republican election concerns. Co-host Geoff Bennett: Some speakers here at the Republican National Convention have repeated the unsubstantiated claim that Democrats are rigging the presidential election, specifically about noncitizens voting. …. Co-host Amna Nawaz: That claim is just one of many conspiracy theories about the security of America's election system that are being spread in the lead-up to November…. Laura Barron-Lopez: This lie dates back to 2016, Amna, when then-candidate Donald Trump said that he lost the popular vote because three to five million noncitizen immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton. That's -- of course is not true. But now it's become much more pervasive among Republicans this election cycle, going all the way from Republican nominee Donald Trump to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has repeated this baseless claim over and over again….It's important to note, Amna, that it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote under federal law. Republican voting concerns are certainly not “baseless,” given that many municipalities across the country have begun allowing non-citizens to vote in state and local elections. The segment closed with Barron-Lopez raising up a familiar left-wing scarecrow, the Heritage Foundation (creators of the feared and loathed but rarely read Project 2025). Barron-Lopez ranted: This is part of a larger effort, Geoff, to sow doubt about America's election system, to convince the electorate that the country’s system can't be trusted and that the -- and that, if Donald Trump were to lose, that that result is not legitimate. And an example of this comes from Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank that has issued a blueprint for a potential second Trump term. Mike Howell, executive director of The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, said recently at an event that: "As things stand right now, there is a zero percent chance of a free and fair election in the United States of America." And that transition report from Heritage Foundation also claimed -- without any evidence -- that President Biden will retain power quote, "by force" and that President Biden will disregard the will of the voters, whatever the ultimate result is. Some fear from election security experts that I have spoken to is that what happens with all this disinformation if Donald Trump were to lose, that it could potentially result in some political violence in the end, Geoff. (Surprise: The transition report itself is a bit more nuanced than that breathless rendering; the threat is posed as a hypothetical, not a certainty.) During the actual convention coverage, PBS brought on PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders at 8:38 p.m. (ET) to issue three real-time “fact checks,” disputing Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson’s claim of “record-high inflation under the Biden administration” (it had been higher in the late 1970s and early 1980s). “It’s important to look up the numbers,” she stated smugly. PBS brought in @PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders to act as Biden Defense Squad. Biden didn't cause "record-high inflation," Kamala Harris isn't really "Border Czar," and some of the two years without a combat death in Afghanistan were in Biden's term. #DemocratHelpers pic.twitter.com/vbk2SrP8Y9 — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 18, 2024 Sanders also claimed that Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz calling Vice-President Kamala Harris “border czar” “needs context.” She assured PBS listeners that it was merely a nickname bestowed on Harris by hostile Republicans, and that Harris was tasked only to “investigate the root causes of immigration in Northern Triangle countries, he didn’t say, you’re in charge now, he left that to the Department of Homeland Security.” The problem with that assurance: The administration itself said one of her tasks was to curb the current flow of migrants! The last fact-check involved an assertion in a speech by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich that “no American [had been] killed in nearly two years” in Afghanistan under Trump. Sanders again issued the classic, “needs a little context,” which PolitiFact is always eager to provide struggling Democrats. NewsBusters’ Alex Christy has previously outlined the case that PolitiFact tips the scale against conservatives. And PolitiFact doesn’t just shriek its liberal fact checks into the void; it is a partner with Meta (the owners of Facebook) and TikTok “to help try and slow the spread of misinformation online…. Meta and TikTok flag posts that they believe may be factually inaccurate or misleading.”

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